This was fitting, and probably to be expected: As Lane Kiffin boarded the private plane Sunday that would take him from Oxford, Miss., to Baton Rouge and his next coaching adventure, a gathering of University of Mississippi football fans saw him off – with boos and extended middle fingers.

Poor guy just doesn’t have much luck with airport tarmacs, does he?

Of course, the record must be tweaked for accuracy. When Kiffin was fired by then-USC athletic director Pat Haden in late September 2013, upon the team plane’s landing in L.A. following a 62-41 loss at Arizona State that left the Trojans at 3-2, Haden didn’t do the deed right on the tarmac, as has long been suggested. Instead, they retreated to a conference room in the air terminal.

““I wasn’t left on the tarmac,” Kiffin told ESPN’s

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